Collector lent Louisiana his treasures a century ago. Now his descendants want it all back.

David Lingle wants his great-grandfather’s historic memorabilia back. An 1818 letter from Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, documents from the 1803 Louisiana Purchase, an 1856 portfolio of Audubon prints and other treasures are worth something like $2 million, Lingle claims. The trouble is, his grandfather’s collection is in limbo,…

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